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Interior design students envisioned the future of a building in Sara D. Roosevelt Park on the Lower East Side that has been closed to the public since the 1970s. Working with community members, they developed proposals for the revitalization of this urban community anchor, building on previous programming studies by community groups and former Pratt students. Read more @prattinteriors.

For the New York Close Up series, Art21 interviewed Salman Toor, MFA Painting ’09, about his paintings, including “Museum Boys” (2021) which he created to present alongside canvases by Johannes Vermeer at Frick Madison as part of Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters.

Architecture student Xiahao Xu⁠ designed the Xi’an Silk Road Train Station which involves the concept of Chinese Shan-Shui painting and traditional Chinese architecture with contemporary materials to emphasize the aesthetics of landscape and beauty. See more @prattsoa.

Sara Greenberger Rafferty, associate professor of photography, was interviewed by Forbes about her current solo show at the Carnegie Museum of Art inspired by the process of shopping before and during the pandemic, such as the samples in makeup stores: “Through the colors that were most tried on you could notice something about the body of people who are in the community.”

James Hannaham, professor in the Writing Department, discussed his latest book, Pilot Impostor, with the Los Angeles Times: “The main rule was that I made it a daily or semi-daily practice to read a poem, think about how to respond to it, and then write something that was related to it in some way.”

The Wind Power NYC digital archive is available to explore on JSTOR as part of the Pratt Institute Libraries Digital Collections. The interdisciplinary research consortium was established by School of Architecture faculty members Karen Bausman and Maria Sieira to focus on the cultural and design implications of offshore wind power in New York City.

PrattMWP hosted a runway show featuring fashion by local refugees and other community members, fashion students, and staff from nearby Herkimer County Community College. See more @prattinstitute.

In a Q&A for the AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC), Nida Abdullah, assistant professor of undergraduate communications design, shared insights on teaching design, the link between practice and pedagogy, and what topics need to be addressed in design education: “I want to encourage students to question the systems we follow and question where they came from.”

In a Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment (GCPE) Alumni Spotlight, Samuel S. T. Pressman, MS Sustainable Environmental Systems ’19, shared his current work in designing food systems and gardens for schools and community spaces: “When I do a community project, I am always eager to first find out as much as I can about what the real needs, challenges, and desires are in that given community or block.”

In its Factory Friday series, Made in NYC, an initiative of the Pratt Center for Community Development, is highlighting makers throughout the city featuring photographs by Pratt student Jacob Grumulaitis. See more @madeinnewyorkcity.